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- GUS Musician's Digest Tue, 11 Oct 94 12:28 PST Volume 9: Issue 4
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- Today's Topics:
- CD ROM daughterboard?
- HELP NEEDED : Auditioning Patches
- Interested in hearing the GUS is musical action?
- Memory on GUS
- Propats 3 ?
- RAM limitations; music scanning software
-
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- Date: Tue, 11 Oct 1994 09:43:18 +0100 (MET)
- From: tgakem@chem.tue.nl
- Subject: CD ROM daughterboard?
-
- I am considering adding a CD ROM player to my computer. Most of the
- offerings I've seen in shop include an interface card for the CD ROM
- player. I also own a GUS. Is there a reason to buy a daughterbord
- CD ROM interface for the GUS instead of using an interface that comes
- with a CD ROM player, e.g., because of availability of IRQ's or
- DMA channels? Any comments appreciated,
-
- Eric Meijer
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Tue, 11 Oct 94 14:16:08 EDT
- From: "Jeff Lawrence" <jlaw@irus.rri.uwo.ca>
- Subject: HELP NEEDED : Auditioning Patches
-
- I've posted this before to the rec.music.makers.synth groups etc.
- but have never been able to get a firm repsonse on this. I have
- GUS MAX, and MQX-16 interface hooked up to Roland EM-303 GM Synth. Now
- according to the manual you should be able to audition patches
- using a MIDI keyboard. I have the MIDI Thru switch switched to
- whatever the manual says etc. but when I play the keyboard, nothing happens!
- Now I have checked the MIDI stream and indeed MIDI signal are reaching
- the computer all on Channel 4 (this is one of those synths with fixed channels -
- cannot change anything at all). The GUS is working since the computer "keyboard"
- does audition the patches. I have tried changing EVEYRTHING I can think of
- but to no avail. The only time the Patch Manager seems to work with the keyboard is when Cakewalk is running, since Cakewalk is somehow linking the
- two and updating the patch cache correctly. But I'd rather not use Cakewalk
- all the time if possible. My system comprises of :
-
- * 386/33 AMD clone with Intel 387 co-pro
- * Oak VGA monitor
- * MQX-16
- * GUS MAX
- * Roland EM-303
- * Windows 3.1 using Norton Desktop 2.0
- * Stacker 4.0
-
- I have tried removing NDW 2.0 and running a bare system, etc.
- but the SAME problem exists. Does the GUS MAX expect all keyboard
- signals on Channel 1 and Channel 1 only???? If so, are there are ways to change
- this???? I haven't tried Patch-Eze yet so this may work but
- for now any suggestions? I wrote Gravis 3 months ago about this problem
- but no response. I may have to call them but if anyone has run into this
- prob before, could they please e-mail me ASAP at jlaw@irus.rr.uwo.ca???
- Thanks! :-)
-
-
-
- Slainthe!,
- Jeff
-
- --
-
- "They call me Mr. Pitiful/Baby that's my name/They call me Mr. Pitiful/That's
- how I got my fame/Nobody seems to understand now/ What makes man feel so
- blue/But they call me Mr. Pitiful/'Cause I lost someone just like you"
- - Otis Reading, "Mr. Pitiful"
-
- ** JEFF LAWRENCE (jlaw@irus.rri.uwo.ca) **
- Grad Student, Imaging Research Labs, Robarts Research Institute
- University Of Western Ontario, P.O. Box 5015, 100 Perth Drive
- London, Ont., CANADA, N6A 5K8 Ph:(519)663-5777 ext. 4028
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Tue, 11 Oct 1994 10:32:22 -0400 (EDT)
- From: "Matthew M. Nordan @ 137" <mnordan@minerva.cis.yale.edu>
- Subject: Interested in hearing the GUS is musical action?
-
- Hi there. I'm an industrial musician here in New Haven, CT; my recording
- project is called Angst. Last March i put out a collection of songs on
- my ittybittyunderground record label, 137 Records. At the time i had no
- 16-bit DB and limited recording equipment. I am now working on recording
- a new album in 16-bit glory with phat effect processors and such.
-
- If you're interested in getting a copy of Angst's _Strain_ (the project
- released last semester), email 137.records@yale.edu for our info file.
- Angst's music is a good example of how the GUS can be used as a backbone
- for electronic music, and it's the only GUS-centric underground release i
- know of.
-
- ]\/[atthew ]\/[. ]\[ordan []. .[] Support underground music! Email
- [][|][] for information about 137 Records.
- mnordan@minerva.cis.yale.edu [] V []
- matthew.nordan@yale.edu [] [] Yawheh, Yeshua, Elohim, forever
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Tue, 11 Oct 1994 09:24:06 +0100 (MET)
- From: tgakem@chem.tue.nl
- Subject: Memory on GUS
-
- > From: Emory Menefee <em@crl.com>
- > Subject: RAM limitations; music scanning software
- >
- > 2. What would happen if one were to extend the DRAM capacity of the
- > existing GUS by either physical expansion of slots, or putting in DRAMs
- > larger than those specified?
-
- The real memory limitation is in the GF1 chip, that only addresses
- 1 MB. The best thing that could happen if you somehow "connected"
- more RAM is that parts of the memory would be physically represented
- in more than one chip :)
-
- Eric Meijer
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Tue, 11 Oct 94 10:14:48 BST
- From: csfb1!csfp.co.uk!pcunnell@uunet.uu.net (Paul Cunnell)
- Subject: Propats 3 ?
-
- Back in August I saw a message on comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard.music
- announcing Propats 3.0, from 911499r@axe.acadiau.ca (JAMES ROSCOE)
-
- For those of you who haven't heard of Propats - the following from
- Bill Allen sums it up:
-
- >Propats are a collection of large (very large) patches that can
- >be used in place of the ones that are supplied with the GUS. These
- >patches have obviously been lovingly put together by someone who
- >cares more about the sound of music than the practicality of the fact
- >that the GUS has only 1meg of memory. Most of the propats use .25 to
- > 5 meg, thus leaving room for 2 or 3 instruments. By contrast the
- >typical patches supplied with the GUS are 10k-60k. The supplied
- >patches are acceptable in a wide variety of uses, but for real music
- >they tend to be lame - listen to the Grand Piano. The initial hit
- >sounds OK, but the decay is awful - it shoulds like a $30 casio.
- >The propat version of Grand Piano sounds just like a GP from low
- >notes to high - it's amazing.
- >
- >I know that I speak for most in the Music digest when I state that
- >these propats are the best reason around to get a GUS with more
- >memory.
- >ballen@ejv.com (Bill Allen)
-
- Now the message I saw stated that the 20-odd zip files had been
- uploaded to:
-
- archive.epas.utoronto.ca pub/pc/ultrasound/submit
-
- The file names were: PP3-1.ZIP through to PP3-19.ZIP
-
- I just checked the archive at src.doc.ic.ac.uk, and I cannot
- see these files (the Propats 1.0 and 2.0 files are there though)
- Can anyone clue me in as to where I might find them ?
-
- Paul.
-
- --
- Paul Cunnell CSFB FOS (csfb1!csfp.co.uk!pcunnell@uunet.uu.net) +44 71 516 2946
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 11 Oct 94 09:44:00 MET
- From: "VISX80::GRECNER" <GRECNER%VISX80.decnet@musx53.zfe.siemens.de>
- Subject: Re: RAM limitations; music scanning software
-
- >1. Why does anybody other than Gravis think that the MAX is worth the
- >money, since it still has only 1 Mb RAM? (A 16 bit card by Logitech has 2
- >Mb).
-
- I agree about 1MB being not enough, but what's that with the Logitech ?
- Isn't it that one having 2M BITS (not bytes) of SRAM to hold the program
- for DSP (not samples) ? I'd like to ask everybody to make a distinction
- between bytes and bits since it's different by a factor of EIGHT ;-)
-
- Martin Grecner
-
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